Well myself and lots of people are not going to buy into having to get a 8800 just to play one game. I said same thing for Farcry and 5months after it was released I got it for 14.99 in the bargain bin. This game, like Farcry will go nowhere because the majority of people aren't stupid enough to fork out an unrealistic amount of money for a video card to run this game the 'way it was intended' and I'm not wasting good money to buy a game I have to turn everything off. Crytek is a dumb ass company anyhow. They want to make a next gen game and 2 times now they think people will run out and buy latest hardware just to run it. They want a game to last, yeah, lets look at that HUGE community they got with Farcry... lmao. HL1 was a major achievement and in some way HL2 is as well and will be around a long time. I sincerely doubt anyone will care about this game a year after its release. I can play 99.9% of everything I am interested in, Crysis like Farcry can wait. And that's if I don't totally switch to my Xbox 360.

Yeah demo's get released all the time that don't reflect the first release retail version.

U don't go debating against those who have retail because your demo runs like crap.

Think about when the first FEAR demo was released and the timeline before the first 8800gtx came out! Then think of when the last retail patch came out and the 8800gtx came out. Im not saying that the last patch had optimizations specifically for the 8800 but im positive its gonna run better than ur demo.